Please join us for a Most Excellent Evening!

In 2016, Joe and V. met in their first Biotechnology Laboratory course with Professor Caroline Evans, followed by several overlapping classes, mentors, advisors, and professors. The BioMaS (Biology, Math, and Sciences) scholarship cohort program at CCAC brought them together to find joy, passion, confidence, life-long friends, and opportunities. At the end of his Biotechnology degree, Joe interned at the Mellon Institute in the Hinman Laboratory to study genomics related to evolutionary development and regeneration, and V. followed him their a year later, interning in the Yttri Laboratory to study neural circuits and action selection decisions. They had fun running into each other at events and in the halls of the Mellon College of Sciences (Science Hogwarts.) In July of 2019, Joe and V. started dating, and it was awesome. While V. worked with Dr. Evankovich and Dr. Chen to assist research in pulmonary medicine, inflammatory markers, and drug discovery at the University of Pittsburgh's Aging Institute, Joe took classes at Pitt. After transitioning to a new lab to research AD and TBI, V. joined Joe in the pursuit of further education. Today, they share the joy and suffering of college and live in Dormont with their spicy cat Persephone. Joe and V. are thankful for the support they've had from family, friends, mentors, professors, and the inspiring laboratories they have learned and worked in. We look forward to meeting you again soon enough! 🖤